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Task MESINESP begins on March. For detailed schedule stay tuned!

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Guidelines for Task MESINESP

The Task on Medical Semantic Indexing in Spanish (MESINESP) is based on the standard process followed by IBECS and LILACS to index journal abstracts in Spanish. The aim of the task is to improve the automatic indexing systems of medical documents in the scientific literature in this language, but also in clinical trial texts and patents. The task is divided into three sub-tracks: More information about the MESINESP BioASQ Task can be found here. The MESINESP BioASQ Task is co-organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) in collaboration with the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos (Greece) and the Biblioteca Nacional de Ciencias de la Salud of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Read more...

The rest of the guidelines provide the essential information for participating in the Task MESINESP2 of the BioASQ challenge. They are organized in sections, by clicking on the titles you can find the relevant details.

+ Competition roll-out

+ Download Training Data

+ DeCS headings

+ Evaluation

+ Download test set

+ Submit test results

+ Add a system

Data from NLM are distributed based on the conditions described here. License Code: 8283NLM123.
If you used data obtained from the BioASQ challenges please support us by reporting BioASQ in your acknowledgements and citing our paper:

An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition: George Tsatsaronis, Georgios Balikas, Prodromos Malakasiotis, Ioannis Partalas, Matthias Zschunke, Michael R Alvers, Dirk Weissenborn, Anastasia Krithara, Sergios Petridis, Dimitris Polychronopoulos, Yannis Almirantis, John Pavlopoulos, Nicolas Baskiotis, Patrick Gallinari, Thierry Artiéres, Axel Ngonga, Norman Heino, Eric Gaussier, Liliana Barrio-Alvers, Michael Schroeder, Ion Androutsopoulos and Georgios Paliouras, in BMC bioinformatics, 2015 (bib).